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bolo en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈboʊ.loʊ/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

From Philippine Spanish bolo, from Tagalog bolo.

Meanings

  1. A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
  2. (attributive) A type of punch; an uppercut.
    • He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch. 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 141:

Forms

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bolos Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

itak · tabak · kampit · sundang · palang · gulok · parang · machete · golok

bolo en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈboʊ.loʊ/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

From Philippine Spanish bolo, from Tagalog bolo.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To cleave or dismember (a person or an animal) with a bolo knife.
    • "In the first place," began Drina, "you are to lie down flat on the floor and creep about and show us how the Moros wriggle through the grass to bolo our sentinels." […] Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff. 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, pages 13–14:

Forms

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bolos Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
boloed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
boloed Tense=Past lexicographic
boloing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

bolo en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈboʊ.loʊ/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

Supposedly named after Bolo Pascha, a German agent in France during World War I.

Meanings

  1. A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.

Forms

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bolos Number=Plur lexicographic

bolo en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈboʊ.loʊ/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

Supposedly named after Bolo Pascha, a German agent in France during World War I.

Meanings

  1. To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.

Forms

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boloing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
boloed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
boloed Tense=Past lexicographic
bolos Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

bolo en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /ˈboʊ.loʊ/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

From Argentine Spanish boleadora (“lariat”).

Meanings

  1. A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.

Forms

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bolos Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

bolo tie

bolo en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /ˈboʊ.loʊ/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

From Argentine Spanish boleadora (“lariat”).

Meanings

  1. (nonce-word, transitive) To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
    • Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff. 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

Forms

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boloed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
boloed Tense=Past lexicographic
bolos Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
boloing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

bolo en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • /ˈboʊ.loʊ/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbəʊ.ləʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

An acronym of be on the lookout.

Meanings

  1. (US) A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.

Forms

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BOLO alternative lexicographic
bolos Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

all-points bulletin · APB